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   Submitted by: The Googlebar Team on Tuesday 19th April 2005 at 00:00 -0500

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[1] Submitted by: David Fitz on Friday August 30th 2002

How on earth can I uninstall this? The button in the preferences is greyed out!

[2] Submitted by: ryan on Saturday September 7th 2002

yeah, please let us know.

[3] Submitted by: uninstall on Saturday September 14th 2002

help me uninstall this thing. What's googlebar without the hotkey (Alt + G) and "I am feeling lucky" shortcut (alt + enter)?

I removed the googlebar folder and edited the installed-chorme.txt file and it removes my menubar.

[4] Submitted by: Rhonda on Wednesday September 25th 2002

Ok, so you've explained that the install problem in linux is a permissions issue... so how do I install it by hand? I'm sure as hell not going to surf as root just to install stuff. What do I do with the .xpi file after I've downloaded it? I don't have a single other xpi file anywhere on my system, so I can't even drop it in with other xpi files and hope for the best.

[5] Submitted by: Rayed on Wednesday September 25th 2002

Uninstall process: (works with me at least) 1- Delete "chrome/googlebar" directory 2- Remove googlebar lines from "chrome/installed-chrome.txt" 3- Remove googlebar lines from "chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content/overlays.rdf"

[6] Submitted by: shaddpop on Tuesday October 8th 2002

Thanx rayed thats was a big help

[7] Submitted by: Adin on Wednesday October 9th 2002

Hey, why are you guys unintstalling it? Did I give you permission ?!

[8] Submitted by: The Khan Artist on Thursday October 17th 2002

I'm uninstalling it because all my Google needs are fullfilled by typing my text into the addres bar, then pressing up arrow and hitting enter. :P

[9] Submitted by: Redtitan on Wednesday October 23rd 2002

Why doesn't Google bar work in Linux if it's written for it?
Thanks to Rayed, I was able to remove the buggy add-on.

[10] Submitted by: pipebomb on Wednesday October 23rd 2002

Help!

www.pipebomb.net/images/mozoops.jpg

just installed on 1.2, and well...as you can see, it didn't work out. how can i remove or fix this please?

contact: pipebomb@pipebomb.net // icq: 440404

thanks for the hard work guys!

[11] Submitted by: Paul Applegate on Friday November 1st 2002

I had the same error as Pipebomb's screenshot on Suse 8.1 linux, on Netscape 7, since I think mozilla items work for it, at least Enigmail GPG does....the un-install instructions by Rayed worked well, thanks to both .

[12] Submitted by: Neil Parks on Sunday November 3rd 2002

>>I opened mozilla and the googlebar has disappeared. How >>do I get it back? By going to View-Show/hide-Google >>Toolbar and selecting this option twice...

Maybe Mozilla has such an option, but Phoenix does not.

[13] Submitted by: Jonathan on Sunday November 3rd 2002

I installed Googlebar and I had some weird text at the bottom of the screen, so I uninstalled it and I have no menu bar now :-(

[14] Submitted by: Jonathan on Sunday November 3rd 2002

Forgot to tell you, on Mozzila 1.2b

[15] Submitted by: Andrea on Monday November 4th 2002

I just installed it on MacOSX 10.2
It does not work, a silly red sign appears below the status bar with "<menuitem id="view_gg .. etc" appears.
Your uninstallation instructions DO NOT WORK for MacOSX.
I had to redownload Mozilla and reinstall from scartch.

[16] Submitted by: Devilbunny on Friday November 8th 2002

For some reason, I had the pipebomb error on both Mozilla 1.2b and Phoenix 0.4 recent nightlies. Blowing away my user profile made it work in both cases. Really, just keep your bookmarks.html, prefs.js, and cookies.txt - the rest should be OK, as long as you check the specific files referenced in prefs.js and update them to the new values for your new default profile.

(On Win 98SE, it's in C:WINDOWSApplication DataPhoenix .)

[17] Submitted by: Devilbunny on Friday November 8th 2002

Hmm, well, we're getting *nix quoting of my backslashes. How's about C:WINDOWSApplication DataPhoenix ?

[18] Submitted by: Devilbunny on Friday November 8th 2002

This is eight backslashes:

[19] Submitted by: offmdan on Saturday November 9th 2002

I just installed it on Mozzy 1.2b & got that "<menuitem id="view_gg .. etc" bit too. Have Windows 98. Just uninstalled Mozzy & reinstalled & seems to be o.k. now.

[20] Submitted by: Fai on Friday November 15th 2002

I got a highlight function googlebar from the web:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/google-toolbar/

It works very nice at my Netscape 7 and it enhanced the search terms function!!

[21] Submitted by: Bill on Friday November 15th 2002

Here's my 2c. Space is a very precious thing on the screen. I think many will appreciate it if they have a choice to use a set of smaller icons.

[22] Submitted by: Robbie on Sunday November 17th 2002

I Installed googlebar on moz 1.0 using littlemozilla 1.1 theme.
this is what appears in a big box at the bottom

<menuitem id="view_gg_menuitem"
--^

how do I uninstall it?

[23] Submitted by: Robbie on Sunday November 17th 2002

it looks like the image here www.pipebomb.net/images/mozoops.jpg same as the post above by someone else. exactly same error message.

[24] Submitted by: Hendrik on Wednesday November 20th 2002

I've got the same menuitem id=view blah error. Clean WIN98 install, installed Mozilla 1.1 right away and then the googlebar. Too bad, i like that googlethingy

[25] Submitted by: Vryl on Thursday November 28th 2002

is there a fix for Pipebombs prob yet? Any info much appreciated

[26] Submitted by: AndyB on Sunday December 1st 2002

To those who've asked, the XUL error that Pipebomb et al have run into seems to be a very strange problem; many very different possible fixes are discussed on bug 1932, and the basic cause is explained above on this very FAQ page ( http://googlebar.mozdev.org/about.html#red-error )- we're still working on pinning down what's, er, causing the cause. There's no single fix to the xpi yet, but there are a LOT of things you can try to fix your installation and make the Googlebar work. If you know where all our problems started, please point us in the right direction.

[27] Submitted by: Eric on Sunday December 1st 2002

I'm experiencing the same red XUL error as many others, on two separate computers. FWIW, both my systems are Windows XP Pro, with the system locale set to English (Canada).

This is with "clean" installs of Mozilla 1.2 and latest Googlebar.

[28] Submitted by: kim chun seong on Saturday December 14th 2002

Help...
i try click 'install'...
but after download package, "not a valid install package"
error??!!
my system is win2000, mozilla 1.2.1
help me....

[29] Submitted by: cjf on Sunday December 15th 2002

Do not distribute software without a useable uninstaller, please.

[30] Submitted by: Chris on Sunday December 15th 2002

DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON THE LINUX PLATFORM. It will completely trash your installation of mozilla. The authors should make this more clear in the installation section. What we have here is essentially Googlebar for Windows (TM).

[31] Submitted by: mozilla_nut on Monday December 16th 2002

<menuitem id="view_gg_menuitem"
--^
:( :( :(

OS XP +SP1 mozilla 1.2.1 , tried the googlebar on 12/15/02
I only get the above text in red at the bottom of the screen, and it wont go away easily
i guess the current xpi setup file is blotched! BEWARE!!!

[32] Submitted by: offmdan on Thursday December 19th 2002

Is there anyway we can receive email notice when the new GoogleToolbar for Mozzy will be available, without the worries of <menuitem id="view_gg_menuitem" ?

[33] Submitted by: reee on Sunday December 22nd 2002

ACK! I got the menuitem id= GG! bug too. And when I follow the "uninstall" instructions my browser is missing half of the menus! DO NOT INSTALL THIS UNTIL ITS FIXED!!!

[34] Submitted by: caah on Wednesday December 25th 2002

Well, I was successful in installing the experimental XPI file and when I ran mozilla 1.0.1 for Redhat as root, everything worked great. The next step, of course, was to play with the perms and attempt as my standard login user. When starting up as this user, I not only lost the google toolbar, but my menubar as well... After following the uninstall procedure, I still have no menubar... Suggestions?? Thanks in advance.

[35] Submitted by: Dan Middleman on Friday December 27th 2002

I am thinking about trying to install the lastest version. I am wondering how you can tell which version is already installed on your computer. Any ideas? Thanks.

[36] Submitted by: astrorev on Sunday December 29th 2002

Is it possible to clear the auto-complete drop down lists used in the Googlebar search field? I have never been a fan of autocomplete and now have so many search topics listed that it is just faster to type in my search topics.

[37] Submitted by: Andrew on Sunday December 29th 2002

To the developers:

This is a good idea, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it clear on your mozdev website that it doesn't work for a lot of people and that there is no easy way to uninstall it.

I get the same <menuitem id=blah blah error. Mozilla 1.3a on WinXP Pro. Got the same error running SuSE 8.0

[38] Submitted by: Desmond on Monday December 30th 2002

I am running Windows 2000 Server, Mozilla 1.2.1 and googlebar 0.4.6 RC3, Got the same error in a big box at the bottom

<menuitem id="view_gg_menuitem"
--^

Please help

[39] Submitted by: Crys or Hannah on Wednesday January 1st 2003

Wow. Seems I'm not the only one with that <menuitem id blah blah thing at the bottom of the window. We need some help here! I'm not a big techie or whatever and I'm not going to go through some folder for uninstallation in fear of something crashing big time!

[40] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday January 3rd 2003

<a href="http://www.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/XPI-remental-2.xpi">install_fix</a>
Here is my fix for install errors. after installing this, you will probably need to disable the xul cache. This worked like a charm on my 1.3a boxes. Your mileage may vary. After the install it says restart. No need to. But along with disabling the xul caching you'll need to type "chrome://googlebar/content/install_fix.xul" once installed. It is the experimental package and the install_fix. see the attachment above my comment to AndyB if desired( the bottom of bug 1932 )
If it works for you let us all know.

[41] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday January 3rd 2003

ok, try again

<a href="http://users.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/XPI-remental-2.xpi"> install_fix</a>

[42] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday January 3rd 2003

save it, rename it without the .zip and run it. 3rd time's a charm.

http://users.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/XPI-remental-2.xpi.zip

[43] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday January 4th 2003

Ok, I put a link up this morning so you can click and it'll ask you if you want to install it. You can also see the contents of install_fix.xul with different click.
Here:
http://users.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/

This fix is to address install errors that happen when you install Googlebar, and try to use it and get a XUL error, aka. Big Red, <menuitem id="view_gg_menuitem" error message. Now, if you create a new Mozilla test user profile, and see the Googlebar when you use Mozilla and this new test user profile, this fix should help you get the Googlebar working when you try to use Mozilla with the user profiles you had when you installed Googlebar. Each user will have to type:

chrome://googlebar/content/install_fix.xul

in the location bar. I also had to disable the XUL cache, which solved a menubar disappearance. To be sure the XUL cache is disabled, search your computer for "xul.mfl" or "xul.mfasl" and make sure they are
zero bytes. There will be one for each Mozilla user profile on the machine. The 'disable XUL cache' option, in the Preferences->Debug->Networking panel, said it was already disabled, but clearing and then rechecking the item gave me the xul.mfl file of zero bytes i was looking for. I monitor the mailing list. You can reach me at john4916@hotmail.com, but if it don't say googlebar in the subject, I won't see it.

Good Luck!

John Woods

[44] Submitted by: Kev on Friday January 10th 2003

Still causing problems on

Mozilla 1.2.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Bit disopointed as it worked fine on Mozilla 1.0.1 (Win 98) and Netscape 7 (Win 98) and Mozilla 0.9-i think (Mandrake 9), if i ever get the thing removed i'll be looking for another search bar :(

Windows 2000 (A.K.A. NT5) Regional Settings are English UK, while Moz is set to en-us (can't even add en-US)

[45] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday January 11th 2003

Posted my attempt to fix 1932. I do think I got it this time. It is in the same place as above. No xul stuff to worry about. That is a seperate issue. Windows users should have no problem, unless they aren't using en-US locale settings. There is a call to translators to get more locales.
Unixes, the script that installs the Googlebar has no OS detection. That is next on my list. Soon. Well here
it is (again).

http://users.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/

or

http://users.bestweb.net/~doris/xul/XPI-remental-2.xpi.zip

[46] Submitted by: Nick Knisely on Saturday January 11th 2003

Yay- thanks John. The fix saved the day for me. (Netscape 7.1 on windows 2k.) Before the .xpi field, I had the awful "red menu item"

[47] Submitted by: Jilles van Gurp on Monday January 13th 2003

Works for me too. On both phoenix and moz1.3a.

[48] Submitted by: Mark on Wednesday January 15th 2003

Forced me into a reinstall of Moz 1.2.1.
Please always offer an uninstall

[49] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday January 15th 2003

Tonight I removed the files from the links above because they are in the XPI-rimental.xpi. I would use that one (already did actually) if having any problem whatsoever.

[50] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday February 4th 2003

Added show/hide Googlebar - keystroke to xpi-rimental.xpi

[51] Submitted by: Posicionamiento on Monday March 17th 2003

Hi from Spain!!

[52] Submitted by: Neil Parks on Monday March 17th 2003

When I attempted to install Googlebar XPI-rimental to Phoenix Mar 17 nightly (Win ME), it failed until I created a new Ph profile. And then Googlebar installed itself into the profile sted the pgm directory. Is this a change in Ph, or a change in Googlebar?

[53] Submitted by: buscadores on Friday March 21st 2003

Works for me

[54] Submitted by: SiverM on Tuesday March 25th 2003

Trying with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020910

XPI-rimental.xpi works.

Download as Normal user.

run as root: # mozilla file:///home/siverm/XPI-rimental.xpi

Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/chrome/googlebar

# chmod -R 755 *

Now the googlebar shows up okay for all users.

Yet to play with it for evaluation of fuctionalities

Ctrl-F8 for show/hide does not work for me.

[55] Submitted by: Steven Maaß on Thursday March 27th 2003

You should put a big red warning button on your Homepage. Uninstall is not easily possible! Mozilla isn't starting anymore, after doing the long list of uninstallation steps!

[56] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday March 28th 2003

Steven
for help see bug 3415

[57] Submitted by: cdn on Monday April 7th 2003

SiverM : if you're using KDE3 this is quite possible, Shift-F8 would work, but isn't in an XPI yet

[59] Submitted by: Oric on Sunday April 13th 2003

I'm running Netscape 7 on Win98, how can I install the XPI file downloaded from this site? I need some advises, please. Thank you.

[60] Submitted by: Robert Bindler on Sunday April 13th 2003

XPI's should install automatically. Are you asked to download and save the file? You should be asked whether you want to install it or not. I'm not too familiar with netscape, but there should be an optioin to enable software installation under your preferences.

In mozilla, thois is found under advanced -> sofware installation

[61] Submitted by: Oric on Sunday April 13th 2003

Thanks Robert.

[62] Submitted by: John Woods on Sunday April 13th 2003

SiverM,
The Shift-f8 hotkey is now in the xpi-rimental.xpi. As a bonus, it should be able to set the permissions up so all users can use it. You should get a prompt, after a successful installation, to do so. You can say no if that makes you nervous. :)

The new phoenix pref panel is nice, thanks cdn!

[63] Submitted by: John on Saturday April 19th 2003

Thanks you for the web, it is what I needed to complete my work.
You do a very good work and you must feel proud of it.

[64] Submitted by: Steve O on Tuesday April 22nd 2003

I just installed Mozilla 1.4a. Now I have 2 googlebars showing up. How do I remove one? I'm sure it has something to do with preferences or profiles. I like to not uninstall if possible because it is such a pain. BTW, I using 0.4.6.2. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

[65] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday April 22nd 2003

Steve,
In bug 3415, we can take a look under the hood, or you can get the new one and use the uninstall. Why the 0.4.6.2 version still?

[66] Submitted by: Steve O on Wednesday April 23rd 2003

John W,
I've tried to upgrade to 0.5 but it still shows .4.6.2. The installation process says its succesful, but still the older version (showing up twice on my toolbar) and no uninstall capability.I will try the manual uninstall and see if that helps.

[67] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday April 24th 2003

Steve,
I really prefer to deal with this in bug 3415. There at least we can create attachments. The usual thing is that I ask to see the log file that is in the mozilla program folder, which has the needed info about your setup, and what it did, and why it did it. At least where the new install was installed to, so then I could give you a command to type. In the absence of all that,
I'll assume you have a split install, both multiuser and single user. Install is supposed to tell you that... and not install, but quit. It does for me at least. Both Redhat 7.3 and Windows 98 SE and ME.

In the url bar, you can try this:
chrome://googlebar/content/freshStart.xul

If you have 2 installations, you may have to/want to do that twice, once for each one.

The alternative is too detailed and would only work for just you. And that we do in 'bugs'. This one in bug 3415 :) I also had the 2 googlebars, at one point after the first try to give users the choice to install where they wanted. It was quickly rescinded! The code always gives first choice to extensions in the users home folder, but got 'confused' I guess. I'll post a pic maybe.

Changed my mind.
So I'll post this in spite of my earlier 'it's too long' stuff. There is never any reason to 'Trash your mozilla installation', as some folks have done in the past. *Emphasis Added*

To manually remove the googlebar installed to your user settings folder:

1) Locate the 'profile root' folder:
It always seems to end with .slt, and the first part of the name is 8 randomly generated chars when the profile was created (so I can't tell you the exact path to your files). You will find files like prefs.js, localstore.rdf, bookmarks.html etc. Make sure it's the right profile if you have multiple!

2) rename or delete chrome.rdf(i always rename things) It will be recreated the next time you start up.

There is an 'overlayinfo' folder in the same folder as the chrome folder, This overlayinfo folder contains info about all the packages you've installed to your profile, which can't be very large because not many packages do that yet. JSLib does. Your browser will lose any 'awareness' of those packages installed to your profile.

3) Rename the overlayinfo folder.
4) Rename the googlebar folder

Now whatever googlebar that remains in the main browserProgramFolder/chrome/googlebar will 'receive' any new upgrades.

Upgrade to 5.0.01, and then un-install it if you wish to use 'profile installations'. The uninstall button is in the preferences:
Google Toolbar->Miscellaneous->Uninstall.
If not, your done.

Now you will be ready to install to your profile, which is a good thing. It doesn't need to be reinstalled every time you install a new browser. It stays, even when you use add/remove programs, and remove mozilla totally, and then re-install, you'll still have it. After doing a successful uninstall, the next time you install the prompt will change, to something like:
You have never installed the Mozdev Googlebar before... and will offer a default install type. If you are using windows, and wish to install to your profile, you will need to click CANCEL, because the default on windows is for everyone. On Unix, or Apple OSX, it is for just that user.

Whew!

[69] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday May 10th 2003

Ufuk's bug 815 patch in now merged into 0.5.0.07
It updates the google results page with the googlebar search terms. There have been many improvements of late provided by Ufuk Kayserilioglu & Robert Fernandes.

You can check your 'toolbar options' to find out what version you have.

[79] Submitted by: nospam on Friday July 11th 2003

l
we can't believe that there is no better spam protection at the notes-pages. you should give tools like a chance, otherwise you should not use url conversion any longer or you have to implement a redirect service that intercepts backlink inheritance.

[83] Submitted by: Zerda on Monday July 28th 2003

I want mine to open a new tab/window every time I do a search.
I've tried setting the key modifier "None" to "Open in new tab", but it will not save that setting for some reason.
When I open the configuration again, it's still set on "None"=>"Same window".
First of all, this must be a bug, since I should be able to change this.
Secondly, there should be a combobox that says:
"Open new search in 'Same window/New window/New tab'"
So that I can define the default behaviour.
For example, I have set it to do an image search when I hold down Shift and a dictionary search when I hold down Ctrl, and an "I'm feeling lucky" when I hold down the alt key, but I want the option to let each of these searches open in another tab/window.

[84] Submitted by: Bernd on Monday July 28th 2003

The "None" -> "Open in new tab" setting works for me. Which version are you using? Please try the latest XPI-rimental version.

Also, the setting
"None" -> "Open in new tab"
"Ctrl" -> "Dictionary"
"Alt" -> "Lucky"
"Shift" -> "Images"

does exactly what you want (this is with googlebar 0.7.0.04). This behaviour was introduced with the changes for bug 3679, so if you have any more suggestions, enter them there.

[85] Submitted by: Bofe on Monday July 28th 2003

I am having trouble using the CTRL+F12 keyboard shortcut because CTRL+F12 in checky.mozdev.org opens the checky preferences and I want it to select the googlebar ... any way on doing this without uninstalling checky?

[86] Submitted by: AndyB on Tuesday July 29th 2003

Bofe, in this case the keyboard shortcut shift-f12 will select the Googlebar, assuming that it does not have any function in checky. The same is true of the ctrl-f8 show/hide hotkey: shift-f8 has the same function as ctrl-f8. See http://googlebar.mozdev.org/about.html#keyboard for more information.

[88] Submitted by: Marek on Thursday August 7th 2003

googlebar is great! the only think I'm missing is pagerank - there's really no way to check pagerank on systems other that ms windows with IE (even directory.google.com gives different pagerank than what appears in IE).

Marek

[89] Submitted by: Ken Kingston on Tuesday August 12th 2003

I like the Googlebar, but all the search language is in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish. How do I change to English?

[90] Submitted by: Ken Kingston on Tuesday August 12th 2003

Forget the last comment by me. I found out how to change to English by reading the instructions, something men are reluctant to do. "If all else fails, read the directions".

[91] Submitted by: Netscape v7. on Thursday August 21st 2003

Does the Google Toolbar work with Netscape v7.1? Installed and doesn't seem to be there.

[92] Submitted by: Bernd on Monday August 25th 2003

Closing this feedback area, please leave your comments on our feedback page http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html

Thanks
Bernd

[93] Submitted by: Mr. Dale on Tuesday June 8th 2004

First, thanks so much for this great extension. Not having a google bar was a show stopper for me. I could not have switched from "that other browser" without it.

I realy quite heavily on the google highlight button in my searches to make searching quick. I have noticed in your googlebar that when I perform a search, the search results page clears the search terms, thus disabling the highlight button. If I copy my search terms first, then perform the search, then past my search terms back in the search box the highlight button works fine.

Is this a config issue on my part or is this a bug/feature of your software. It would make things sipler if I didn't have to remember to copy and then past my search words on each search to use the highlight button.

Thanks again for your great firefox extension!

Kevin

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[94] Submitted by: Monica on Friday June 11th 2004

I love your googlebar but when are you going to add the page rank feature that the "google toolbar" offers? It would really be helpful.
Thx,
Monica

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[95] Submitted by: George on Tuesday June 15th 2004

Search terms disappear from the Googlebar (to the right of the search box) after performing a search. This essentially disables the find/highlight search terms function.

Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[96] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday June 15th 2004

George,
what version googlebar do you have? That can be found in Googlebar preferences.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422

[97] Submitted by: Mike on Wednesday June 16th 2004

Is anyone having trouble installing the googlebar with Firefox 0.9? I installed it twice, but each time there were some sort of parse errors in the browser. Each time I had to start the browser in safe mode (a new feature) to uninstall it. Help would be appreciated.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[98] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday June 16th 2004

Mike,

Read the notes on the installation page. It covers things like... did you uninstall your firefox before installing 0.9, or at least make it install to a different directory? Installation issues are now something users will have to query firefox about. Things like that.

If you check on the feedback page you'll see alot of people already have it running. If Googlebar doesn't install well, then it is a good sign things are not right with your setup. A combination of what is in your mozilla/firefox profile/personal settings and in the program directory.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422

[99] Submitted by: Paul on Saturday June 19th 2004

I use firefox .9 and your toolbar is lited in it's list of avalible extensions. I have installed it and there is this tiny blue line between the seach par with the dropdown windows, and your icons that i can't get rid of. More of a cosmetic bug, but i hop[e you will address it.
spalek83@yahoo.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

[100] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday June 19th 2004

Paul,
If you put your mouse over the blue line, what does the popup tooltip say?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040609 Firefox/0.8.0+

[101] Submitted by: Almu on Monday June 21st 2004

I've installed this extension to show the pagerank in the googlebar, but it doesn't work.
Does anybody know something about this problem?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

[102] Submitted by: Nick on Monday June 21st 2004

Hi Almu

My PRGooglebar project is not affiliated with the real Googlebar project. I have forums where you can post these problems.

The server where I get the pagerank from is having a issue. I hope it will be rectified soon.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[103] Submitted by: Koolala on Tuesday June 22nd 2004

The heigt of the new Googlebar has raised from 30 to 38 pixels! :( That's even more than enough. How fat shall it get? 100 pixels? 200? ;)

Please reduce its height to the old value.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[104] Submitted by: Koolala on Tuesday June 22nd 2004

"Save the last search selected from each drop down menu button" is enabled and does the correct search but the toolbar button always shows the default icon, it never changes.

Google Toolbar 0.9.0.20

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[105] Submitted by: Robin on Friday June 25th 2004

When I type search terms in the google search box and hit return, Mozilla 1.7 (Windows 2000) goes to a web page rather than a google list of hits. How do I fix this?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[106] Submitted by: Ucklak on Friday June 25th 2004

Running 1.6, I get a popup
-----------
Alert

! Shouldn't have gotten here, but kindly leave us a note on googlebar.
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So I can't use Google bar. (Windows platform, XP)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[107] Submitted by: Ucklak on Friday June 25th 2004

I had to do a manual un-install then reinstalled the toolbar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[108] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday June 25th 2004

Robin,
Try setting up your keystrokes in the preferences. bug 6176 has a step by step procedure. The problem arises if/when there are settings leftover from the version 0.7.x googlebar. If you use the preferences to set them up... this should go away for good. If you have any problem after setting them up, you can file a bug and we'll see what can be done.

Ucklak,
Well judging by the error msg, you have googlebar version 9.02 or earlier. This error comes up when there is a missing preference, for the keystroke to use... all you had to do was see the same bug 6176. The error msg has been changed in the XPI-rimental.xpi to address the problem a little more directly. eg. set them keyboard preferences up!...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[109] Submitted by: Acohn on Monday June 28th 2004

I am probably too stupid to be using beta software, but I am tired of IE's security holes (or at least, attacks on them), and Firefox's tabbed browsing is cool. Anyway, on to the stupid part. I can't figure out how to download the Mozilla Googlebar. I click on an "install" link on the installation page, and nothing happens. I click on the "download" link, and I save an XPI file to my hard drive. I try to open the .xpi file with Firefox, and nothing happens.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[110] Submitted by: John Woods on Monday June 28th 2004

Acohn,
A few things:
In the Tools menu->Options->Advanced panel will be an item "Allow web sites to install software" make sure that is checked.

You have to make sure to get the correct file but it sounds like you did that. Be sure it's the one for firefox 0.8+ 0.9

On a general note for firefox 0.9.0 users.
Using a firefox 0.9.1 build from cvs and the extension installation/upgrade problem is fixed in this firefox version. The toolbar height problem has been fixed as well. Firefox 0.9.0 does not *upgrade* extensions smoothly. Any googlebar update will have to come in a .jar file for firefox 0.9.0 users, unless they get firefox 0.9.1 out the door quickly enough. If you copy the googlebar.jar over the one that is there... there is no problem.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040627 Firefox/0.9.1

[111] Submitted by: Paul on Wednesday June 30th 2004

First of all - great software ... Just a comment/question ... I downloaded googlebar at home last night and at work today. The version I got at work today had a blog button but I don't see it in this version. Do I need to reinstall? If I do, will I lose the customization I've done on the tool bars. Thanks, great work ...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[112] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday June 30th 2004

Paul,
You probably have a version with it, and just need to open the special searches pulldown menubutton. If your version has it, a right click on the Googlebar brings up a menu which has the items you can place on the toolbar. Blogger in in the main "Google Searches" item.

Without more detail regarding what version browsers you have, and what version googlebars, and what kind of customizations you have made... I'll take a "most common type" guestimate and guess you have firefox on both machines. 9.0 or better on the other machine. (First thing is to uninstall firefox 0.9.0, reinstall firefox 0.9.1 on the other if you haven't already done so.) If the customizations you made involved things that Googlebar actually did, like move buttons around or the settings for the keystrokes or country search settings etc... you won't lose those.

As a followup to the comment above, it seems the toolbar has the same height problem as in 0.9.0. :( We will have to put css in that XPI-firefox distribution to correct that. The other thing is that copying a googlebar.jar over the one already there is not good. Not if you are using the version from update.mozilla.org. The only way to upgrade and be safe while doing so... is to uninstall googlebar and then reinstall, if using 0.9.0. Period. We will have to wait a while before we can update the u.m.o site because of this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[113] Submitted by: Acohn on Wednesday June 30th 2004

To John Woods:

Thanks for pointing out the "Allow web sites to install software" control. That solved my immediate problem.

One feature of the IE Google toolbar I miss is AutoFill. Do you know of a plug-in that will give me equivalent functionality, or does the Googlebar development team plan to add this functionality?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[114] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday June 30th 2004

As firefox matures, it will become a possibility. Let's see how that goes first. There is a project here at autoform.mozdev.org.

I just put in a version that addresses the toolbar height problem in Firefox's winstripe theme. It is still the same version number... 0.9.0.22 but has css mods suggested by Bernd.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[115] Submitted by: Brian on Wednesday June 30th 2004

How do you clear the previous search history in the google mozilla bar? I use the standard clear all in Mozilla, but the search history on this bar remains.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

[116] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday June 30th 2004

Brian,
On the left of the search words box is a dropdown menu.
Clear Search History

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[117] Submitted by: Hank on Thursday July 1st 2004

Just installed GoogleBar for Firefox and note:
a. View -> Toolbars -> Google is missing; tried the Shift + F8 toggel and that works; suggest that you add the function to the Toolbars control pulldown to be consistant with the overall functionality of Firefox
b. AutoFill, which is present on the IE GoogleBar; is there a plan to add that to the Firefox GoogleBar?

Thanks in advance!
Hank (PS - great work!)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[118] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday July 1st 2004

Hank,
a. Yes, we are breaking the rules some... it is not in the View->Toolbars popout/up whatever but on the bottom of the View menu... well it is faster isn't it? :) Actually, with the release of firefox and the EM, and the problems thereof, I just haven't had the time.

b. try autofill.mozdev.org though he needs a hide/show toolbar hotkey... (I already sent him a patch, so it should be coming on his next release)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[119] Submitted by: Doug on Friday July 2nd 2004

After installing Mozilla 1.7 I tried to install the googlebar (v 0.8). I got no error messages, but I see no googlebar on Mozilla now. However, if I click on the Search button I go to the Google screen. What am I missing?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[120] Submitted by: Dan on Saturday July 3rd 2004

Great work in making a functional tool available for us FireFox users. I haven't had any problems as of yet, but was wondering if there was any way to get rid of the seperators that are between the buttons after you get rid of the buttons. There's quite a bit of functionality that I don't use, so a lot of my buttons I've deselected, but now I'm left with three seperators right next to each other.

Just a cosmetic thing, I won't be offended if you tell me to go sit on it. :) Thanks again for making such a useful extension. BTW, I'm running FireFox 9 on a Windows XP Pro machine.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[121] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday July 3rd 2004

Doug.
sounds like you need to file a bug, where we can help you out better.

Dan,
See here (they fall off to the right)

Thanks from all of us.
(If you happen to stop by update.mozilla.org... tell them! :)

I hope you upgraded that browser to 0.9.1! If not, download it... uninstall 0.9.0, delete files when it asks, and install 0.9.1.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[122] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday July 3rd 2004

Dan,
It stole my link!!!!
googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c93
add the http: stuff

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[123] Submitted by: Alex developer/seo on Monday July 5th 2004

YOUR GOOGLEBAR IS VERY NICE!

BUT I'm MISSING PAGERANK!!!

ALL SEO COMMUNITY WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU MAKE THIS!!!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[124] Submitted by: Nick Stallman on Monday July 5th 2004

Hi Alex
I have created a project to add it.
www.prgooglebar.org
That is exactly the same as the Googlebar but it has a pagerank bar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[125] Submitted by: googler on Monday July 5th 2004

Great tool

erlebnisladen24.de

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[126] Submitted by: snark112 on Monday July 5th 2004

I caan't find the auto-fill button. Also, options does not have a tab for removing or adding buttons

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[127] Submitted by: Fernando Antunes on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:25:32 -0400

Install on Firefox 0.8 and SUSE 9.1 !

I'm found this message in the Install.log file
Install **FAILED** with error -204

Anyone can help-me ?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

[128] Submitted by: John Woods on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:38:50 -0400

Fernando Antunes,
Install from the googlebar installation page, for regular mozilla... using the XPI-rimental or XPI-stable versions.
I'm partial to XPI-rimental as it has many bugs fixed that XPI-stable does not.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[129] Submitted by: EMac on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:21:00 -0400

What happened to auto fill ???? it worked fine on IE!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[130] Submitted by: Ed on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:00:31 -0400

Using 0.9.0.25:

Perhaps I am missing something but when I set the "maximum number of search terms kept in history" to greater than zero, there is no dropdown arrow next to the googlebar box unless I also check "preserve the search history across browser sessions."

I want my search history gone after each browser session but I'd also like to keep x number of search terms within each browser session and have access to them.

Is this possible?

Many thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[131] Submitted by: John Woods on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:23:15 -0400

Ed,
Not possible at the moment... the history is kept in your prefs.js file... I would suggest using

a) keep search history between sessions checked.
b) set it to what maximum amount you would like to see maintained in a session basis, 5 you said...
c) Use the clear search history menuitem found on the leftmost 'g' pulldown menuitem before exiting.

The wording in the preference dialog could make it more clear that we're talking about the history kept in the disk file where sessions histories are stored.

Go ahead and file an {RFE} bug for non-persistent session history, you'll get notified when it is implemented.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[132] Submitted by: Fernando Antunes on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:57:12 -0400

Thank John Woods, it works now.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

[133] Submitted by: dave b on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:43:29 -0400

is the form prefill supposed to be the equivalent of autofill? In which case where do I put my details? I can't find it anywhere

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 StumbleUpon/1.993

[134] Submitted by: Ed on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:21:03 -0400

John Woods wrote:
The wording in the preference dialog could make it more clear that we're talking about the history kept in the disk file where sessions histories are stored.

----------------------------------------------------

Please explain how this history is useful to a googlebar user since it is not accessible within the gooblebar interface.

Many thanks again.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[135] Submitted by: John Woods on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:04:31 -0400

dave b,
["is the form prefill supposed to be the equivalent of autofill? In which case where do I put my details? I can't find it anywhere"]

What form prefill? If you are on Firefox, then bug 6701 has the options open to you... explained. We will have to make a separate page explaining the choices available complete with http links. This form disallows them to prevent spammers from using it.

Ed,
["Please explain how this history is useful to a googlebar user since it is not accessible within the gooblebar interface."]

It most certainly is.

It will automatically keep search histories. If you do nothing after installing it, it will store 10 searches in your prefs.js file.

If you never want to have anything stored, uncheck the option, preserve history between browser sessions. (When that is unchecked, the number in the amount to keep element is ignored. Makes sense right?)

If you want to have history items kept during your session, but not on disk in any way... the only way to do that is... by using the pull down menuitem "Clear Search History", preferably just before you exit the session.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[136] Submitted by: Ed on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:35:45 -0400

So setting the "maximum number of search terms kept in history" to greater than zero is ignored unless one also checks "preserve the search history across browser sessions"?

If that is the case, then I think the explanation of these options needs to be much clearer in googlebar's preference panel.

Thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[137] Submitted by: Joe PAONE on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:19:32 -0400

joepaone@msn.com One feature I miss from the actual "GoogleBar" to the Mozi;;a is the feature called "AutoFill" It is a great option to fill in the Blanks quicker than "AutoComplete, because it fills all items on a Page in the blink of an eye. Is there a probability that you will add an AutoFill funcion to your Google Bar?
Please let me know using my email - it could mean the difference in using IE 6.0 or Mozilla - I want that feature that much despite the simplicity of Mozilla of ewhich is a Great, great browser." Please add Autofill!?!?!?!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[138] Submitted by: Roderick on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:17:28 -0400

How do you fill out information on the 'Form Prefill' feature??

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[139] Submitted by: Mike H on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:21:52 -0400

I second what Roderick has just said: "How do you fillout information on the 'Form Prefill' feature??"

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

[140] Submitted by: John Woods on Monday 12th July 2004 at 01:20 -0400

see bug 6701 for some Firefox options, (yeah we are not finished with it... yet)

using seamonkey...

click to 'quick-prefill', (it tries to guess, mine hits once in a while :)
click with any modifier key(ctrl-shift-alt) - bring up the form 'saved data' interface,
middle mouse button - capture form data.

if your form info is all messed up, as mine was from a few hit and miss form capture attempts along my way, and want to start fresh in your existing mozilla user profile, then...
In your mozilla profile is a file named with some random numbers and a ."w", eg. 12233344.w that stores what mozilla has gathered from forms so far. If you load it in your ascii text editor, like Notepad or the dos editor program Edit.com and delete all the lines in the file... when Mozilla is not running of course!... then you can start fresh. You will notice the form data is also encrypted.

Then a site such as this one... www.mozilla.org/wallet/samples/wallet.html
or better yet this one...
www.efritz.net/AutoFill2b.html
which has blank form and items or fields you fill out, to then use the capture form items with... middle mouse button... (is anyone still using a mouse that doesn't have one? hmmm... yes, will probably will have to change that to something everyone has. :)

Here are the elements at efritz's site, but you can also create encrypted or even custom elements... and capture them or just save them to a bookmark! Which is a heck of a lot easier to keep using moving from computer to computer ( ok? now here comes the form element list...)

First Name:
Middle Inital:
Last Name:
Prefix:
Gender:
Birthdate:
Email:
Company:
City:
State:
Country:
Zip:
Address:
Address 2:
Age:
Telephone: Ext:
Fax:

whew! This belongs in a faq :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

[141] Submitted by: Roy Reed on Tuesday 13th July 2004 at 08:20 -0400

I want to use google.co.uk and have the choice on the toolbar of searching the whole web or UK only (as with IE googlebar). Is there a way of doing this? Currently the search from google.co.uk is for the web and that gives exactly the same results as for google.com.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

[142] Submitted by: Roy Reed on Tuesday 13th July 2004 at 08:21 -0400

And why does the footer in my previous post report as Firefox 0.8? My version is 0.9.2.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

[143] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday 13th July 2004 at 09:38 -0400

Roy,
If I understand what you are looking for correctly...
The "New Additions" item in the preferences has options for you to select google searches restricted to a particular country, or a chosen language or both combined.

These settings are used for the My Country button.
The button is not visible by default... but you promote it to the googlebar by selecting it from the googlebar's context menu. Tucked away in the Special Searches menu you'll see My Country.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[144] Submitted by: Michael Tchong on Saturday 17th July 2004 at 12:30 -0400

You completely lost me on the Form Prefill button explanation. Clicking any modifier button and Form Prefill does nothing.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[145] Submitted by: John Woods on Saturday 17th July 2004 at 13:14 -0400

Michael Tchong,
That only works for Mozilla Suite at the present. That is called seamonkey too. For Firefox click bug 6701 I apologize for using the Mozilla Suite nickname. New Firefox users might not know that. In short, bug 6701 has 2 options to get form filling working. One is another Mozdev.org project. The other uses your bookmarks, and I find it quite a good substitute. Bookmarks are much more transportable, to another browser, for instance. But the Mozdev project I give is a full featured answer. Depends on what you need.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[146] Submitted by: Stephan M on Saturday 17th July 2004 at 14:08 -0400

Appears there's one flaky problem and/or conflict between Googlebar and the Switchproxy extension (no idea which is causing it). If I have BOTH extensions enabled, the "sort by date" option checkbox (in Googlebar) isn't saved between browser sessions, but if I disable the Switchproxy extension (through "tools>extensions"), the option saves like it should. Latest versions of both (along with Firefox 0.92) don't make a difference.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[147] Submitted by: AndyB on Saturday 17th July 2004 at 22:15 -0400

Stephan M, I think I have a pretty good idea what's causing this one... sometimes the code for the googlebar names an important "function" with the same name as is used by another extension, usually by coincidence (for example, there might be two functions, both named "SavePrefs").

We'll need a little more information to solve the problem, though: can you go to "Javascript console" on the "Tools" menu and give us the text of any errors that look related to the Googlebar? Once we know that, we can change our code to fix the problem and send you a new version- I'd suggest filing a bug on our bugs page; if you're new to this, there's also a page of tips linked from there. Thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[148] Submitted by: Michael on Sunday 18th July 2004 at 06:22 -0400

I would like to use form fill but am not able to enter the information in it. I've gone to pages with fields to fill and clicked the button, to see if that would bring up a settings page... getting nothing. Any ideas.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[149] Submitted by: John Woods on Sunday 18th July 2004 at 06:33 -0400

Michael,
search for bug 6701 on this page, or even browse that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[150] Submitted by: Mort on Tuesday 20th July 2004 at 01:45 -0400

When will the Toolbar offer Autofill?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[151] Submitted by: dennis p. on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:00 -0400

i just intalled the googlebar on firefox 0.9.2 or whatever, and everything seems to be working, but when i search for something nothing happens and it says "searching labs.google.com" on the status bar and it goes to a blank page and says "done" in the status bar. please help me because i really need the googlebar... and IE sucks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[152] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:08 -0400

dennis,
see

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[153] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:10 -0400

dennis,
i'll try again,
googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c131

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[154] Submitted by: dennis p. on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:11 -0400

just wanted to add that nothing works at all, none of the buttons on the toolbar work...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[155] Submitted by: dennis p. on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:31 -0400

thanks for the help john, i really appreciate it,
i also have one other question, how do you set up the form prefill thing. i click on the magnyfing glass arrow thing then on on "form prefill" but it just sends me to a black google page. what should i do?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[156] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 20:52 -0400

dennis
see bug 6701 for firefox options and autofill.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mnenhy/0.6.0.9

[157] Submitted by: Harry on Thursday 22nd July 2004 at 22:16 -0400

Any chance the Googlebar might work with the gecko-based "K-Meleon"?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; MyIE2; Crazy Browser 1.0.5)

[158] Submitted by: Stephan M on Friday 23rd July 2004 at 15:14 -0400

AndyB,

I've had no luck in trying to determine what's going on between it and Switchproxy. Have no JS errors that I can directly correlate to it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[159] Submitted by: Stephan M on Tuesday 27th July 2004 at 11:39 -0400

0.9.0.28 appears to have fixed the conflict...thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[160] Submitted by: Shaun Pankau on Friday 30th July 2004 at 09:01 -0400

It would be really nice if there was a way to know whether the highlight feature was enabled (like toggling the yellow highligher to a different icon), like the real Googlebar. When enabled, the highlight feature can make Firefox 0.8 (with Googlebar 0.8) very sluggish (at least on WinXP Pro) when viewing large pages with several keywords highlighted. It would be nice to know at a glance (versus scrolling through the page) if the highlighting was turned on, so it could be switch off for the affected page(s). This is one area where the mozdev Googlebar on Firefox fails to beat using the real Googlebar with IE, and could use some improvement.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[161] Submitted by: John Yani on Friday 6th August 2004 at 01:23 -0400

It would be great if it was possible to dock google with others like Address bar on the same row, currently it's not possible, are you (goolge bar developers) close to making it possible? i really like to see that in the next version. thank you

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[162] Submitted by: Elliott on Friday 6th August 2004 at 10:57 -0400

Hi I was just wondering why in the googlebar options the title bar header reads "Phoogle"?? I'm currently using googlebar 0.9.0.28. Just curious,thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[163] Submitted by: po on Friday 6th August 2004 at 11:48 -0400

Jesus Christ what a screwed up friggin program Firefox is. EVERYTHING must be found and THEN installed. EVERYTHING.

If you're a computer geek fine. If you're on welfare, unemployed or a student fine. USELESS for those of us with repsonsiblities, jobs and a life.

For Christ's sake Mozilla, step up to the plate and act like professionals. Anytime Microsoft beats you with its software, like it does here with ease of use, you pretty much suck. And quit telling people to go to download.com; try at least beating Microsoft at the integrity game.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

[164] Submitted by: Nick Stallman on Friday 6th August 2004 at 12:14 -0400

What? Would you like Firefox to come pre-installed with Windows so you cant figure out how to click next a few times?

Go get a life and stop spamming these boards. This is the About Googlebar comment page. Not the Winge about Firefox comment page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714

[165] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday 6th August 2004 at 17:26 -0400

Nick,
Re: comment #c163 by po... Well this IS new behavior. It should be ignored. The firefox dept is at another website.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

[166] Submitted by: Tim on Tuesday 10th August 2004 at 19:43 -0400

Hi,

Great tool!! But, I found a couple bugs.

I'm using Googlebar with Firefox 0.9.3 on WinXP Pro.

When I highlight a word in a web page, right click and select "Googlebar Items -> Dictionary search", I get a standard Google search just like selecting "Search for selected text" does instead of a dictionary.reference.com search.

Typing something into the Googlebar search box and selecting "Dictionary search" from the dropdown works like it should.

Also, there's no Glossary search in the right click menu like there is in the dropdown.

#163 by po,
It's called CUSTOMIZATION. Are you an AOL user, by chance? Just askin'...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[167] Submitted by: FP-User on Saturday 28th August 2004 at 18:00 -0400

First the Irony. When I hit the download button, it immediately tries to install, so I used ie6 to download the .xpi files.

My question.
When I try to doubleclick the XPI it will not run. How can get it to install from a downloaded copy.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[168] Submitted by: Thad Biggerstaff on Saturday 28th August 2004 at 22:45 -0400

can someone tell me a simple way to unsubscribe from this list. many thanks! -thad

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[169] Submitted by: JPClizbe on Saturday 28th August 2004 at 22:56 -0400

#167 How can get it to install from a downloaded copy?

Find the file in Windows Explorer and drag it onto the browser window -- works in FireFox, Mozilla, and Netscape.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040828

[170] Submitted by: David Taylor on Saturday 28th August 2004 at 23:32 -0400

#168 Thad:
Before you clog everyone's email accounts with stupid questions, try reading the auto appened message on every email the listserv sends out. if you did so, you would see this url: http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/googlebar . go there and figure it out.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[171] Submitted by: flwrpwr on Thursday 2nd September 2004 at 02:24 -0400

So I installed it; it's just fine and I received my google license key.

How can I integrate it into the googlebar so that I do NOT add to the 1000 a day limit for everybody else???

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

[172] Submitted by: Nick Stallman on Thursday 2nd September 2004 at 03:15 -0400

The Googlebar doesnt use the Google API AFAIK.

Its just a interface for Google's site.

There is no 1000 a day limit for all the Googlebar users. That would be absolute hell! ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[173] Submitted by: James W Pollock on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 06:59 -0400

After I installed the googlebar extension my Bookmarks went blank. The only way I could get it back was to uninstall the googlebar.

Help please!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[174] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 14:36 -0400

James W Pollock,
This sounds bad... I am familiar with some disappearing bookmarks problems as a more general Firefox problem.
I created a bug for us to sort this one out. bug 7185
http://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7185

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

[175] Submitted by: Pat on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 14:43 -0400

I have only seen the bookmarks vanish for a few seconds on install, or when browser opens with the googlebar open. It was never that big of an issue for me as the bookmarks always came back quickly.

I have not seen the problem with the Firefoxtoolbar (our product) or NeedleSearch (not our product)

-Pat

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[176] Submitted by: John Woods on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 16:23 -0400

Pat,
Please see comment http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c172

These pages are getting longer and longer. :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

[177] Submitted by: James W Pollock on Wednesday 8th September 2004 at 05:56 -0400

Googlebar - Thanks for replies. I'm afraid my original post was not strictly accurate. I missed out the word 'toolbar'. In other words all the icons disappeared from my Bookmarks toolbar after installing Googlebar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[178] Submitted by: Ern Reeders on Friday 17th September 2004 at 15:49 -0400

Installed it fine. Then happened to move the toolbar to the right side of the nav bar and only the search window appears. Can't drop it back below the nav bar; it doesn't show up in the list of extensions; can't uninstall it cos doesn't showup as a folder under chrome or as entries in the two text files mentioned in chrome, so ..??
So installed it again, now shows up in the extensions list as will be installed when next Firefox is started, but it doesn't.
Any help appreciated :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[179] Submitted by: John Woods on Friday 17th September 2004 at 18:41 -0400

Ern Reeders,
I would just make a new profile and move on. You can modify your shortcut and change it back when done...

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe" -P

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[180] Submitted by: Ethorsen on Wednesday 22nd September 2004 at 11:09 -0400

I just installed the Firefox 1.0PR and the googlebar (0.9.0.29)

Now i have two googlebar on the same bar... Where it`s supposed to be the search terms (to the right of the last button) there is another bar with the sames button as the left one.

Now it is annoying because i can`t extend the search text box nor navigate with the search terms.

Please help
Thx

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[181] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday 22nd September 2004 at 17:51 -0400

Ethorsen,
See bug 7267 to remedy this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

[182] Submitted by: Clyde on Monday 4th October 2004 at 14:03 -0400

I was trying to highlite the word review on a page, but it also highlited preview. How can I hitlite full words only or use spaces in the word? I tried using quotes as in " review" but that didn't work either.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[183] Submitted by: Valerie Staats on Tuesday 5th October 2004 at 12:37 -0400

Since installing the Google Bar (via the Firefox Extension), whenever I try to send an email via a hyperlink, Google Mail is openend. Google Mail is not my default mail client. Further complicating this issue is that Google Mail is not accepting new subscribers yet, so when taken to Google Mail, I am unable to send an email. I am essentially at a dead end. Can anyone help? PS: I abosolutely love Firefox and the benefits of the Google Bar are awesome. I am just trying to fix this little quirk. All of my mail preferances appear to be correct.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[184] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday 6th October 2004 at 02:06 -0400

Clyde,
Good point. You can expect whole word Highlighting in the next version. It would at the same time reduce the single letter "hits" on a page.

Valerie Staats,
The Googlebar does not touch the mailto protocol handler. hmmm. mailto:googlebar@mozdev.org
Perhaps you instaled some other things as well, when you installed Googlebar?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[185] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday 6th October 2004 at 02:21 -0400

Valerie Staats,

I decided to test the mailto link on a webpage, after this one refused it, and you are correct after all. On my Firefox test machine running Windows XP Google.com has taken over the mailto handler. It has nothing to do with Googlebar beiing installed, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this just the same. I'll post a solution here when I do. Anybnody else already come across this? Especially annoying is the difficulty I seem to have... when I try and sign in to a different Gmail.com account, than the one I was last using. It gives an additional word to type, along with the password (again!!!) in an image that is not even human readable sometimes.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[186] Submitted by: John Woods on Wednesday 6th October 2004 at 03:10 -0400

Valerie Staats,

If you have installed the Gmail Notifier from Google, as I have, it defaults to setting the systemwide mailto protocol handler to use Gmail. A right click on the icon in the system tray, and selecting the Options item allows you to turn it off. Then you will have the one you had before.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[187] Submitted by: Josh on Wednesday 6th October 2004 at 14:20 -0400

I like GoogleBar, but I've found it conflicts with the highlight function in the Find Toolbar in Firefox 1.0PR. If I uninstall GoogleBar, the find toolbar highlighting works. If I re-install it, find toolbar highlighting does not work.

Would love to see this fixed, or learn of a workaround.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[188] Submitted by: seriocomic on Thursday 7th October 2004 at 07:14 -0400

This is a great tool. John deserves credit for answering all of these support requests!

To be the perfect search tool bar, this needs the funtionality of UltraBar where you can add custom searches (rather than the preset ones included) by entering a special term (ubterms).

I hope that this option gets looked at!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[189] Submitted by: John Woods on Thursday 7th October 2004 at 21:51 -0400

Josh,
There is a new conflict with Fx 1.0pr as you describe. It'll be fixed in the next version.

seriocomic,
Yes, the Googlebar just does Google searching. The project goals state that to be the objective, but you can find references to other search tools from the main page for Googlebar. Thanks for the kudos. :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[190] Submitted by: Guygb7 on Wednesday 20th October 2004 at 09:17 -0400

Now that I've got Googlebar how do I get rid of the "find this page" option on the right end side of the navigation toolbar and so clearing up some space to ad other icons to the right of the adress bar ?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[191] Submitted by: klite on Saturday 6th November 2004 at 22:26 -0500

is there a way for me to add an icon to search wikipedia or cancerweb online dictionary to the googlebar? i REALLY like how the googlebar has many features that utilize googles functionality (search this site for example), and I would rather not install another toolbar to search other sites. Thanks a lot!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[192] Submitted by: dindodi on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:49 -0500

how do i get google to open in google.com.au instead of google.com (and do this as default)?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[193] Submitted by: David Taylor on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 23:40 -0500

c192:
Open the main drop down menu, select googlebar options.
Select tab 'Google Site Options', and pick desired option from the 'Select International Version of Google Search', in your case, australia.
--david a.k.a. maximander
--gerpok.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Seabunny/0.9.1 (david's Firefox/0.9.1 polymorph)

[194] Submitted by: cracksmokingspaceman on Wednesday 10th November 2004 at 08:40 -0500

When will there be a release for Firefox 1.0?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[195] Submitted by: mike on Thursday 11th November 2004 at 18:11 -0500

hello,

Special searches under keyboard shortcuts are buggy. For instance when I set ctrl+enter for site search and close the options, just pressing enter also gives me site search.

Thank you.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[196] Submitted by: Wolrgang on Saturday 13th November 2004 at 12:24 -0500

Why has the option to remove the Googlebar from the context menu been disabled? I would like to remove it from my already-cluttered context menu. Thanks.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Imperial College; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[197] Submitted by: dalivision on Monday 15th November 2004 at 13:18 -0500

Can't seem to download the google toolbar for Firefox 1.0. Any ideas or is it that the site is busy?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[198] Submitted by: makaranna on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 08:58 -0500

I've downloaded Firefox 1.0 but, despite following all the instructions can't download Googlebar to it. Nothing happens when I hit the download link or, sometimes I get an xpi file that won't run. I'm also baffled by this supposed helpful comment
"I can't seem to install the toolbar on linux (or elsewhere)There are a variety of causes of this problem, though- the simplest is that the "enable software installation" option under advanced preferences in mozilla is not checked." There is no box to be checked in the advanced menu for Firefox 1.0. Help!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[199] Submitted by: zico on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 09:04 -0500

i have tried to download the google toolbar and it just keeps saying
"to protect your pc firefox will not download this....."

so what the F*%k do i do

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[200] Submitted by: zico on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 09:08 -0500

hurray i've sorted it

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[201] Submitted by: Really bored on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 13:32 -0500

This bar is a mess with Firefox 1.0. Something like a bar of two inches appeared on the bottom of the window !!!

Could you please tell me how to uninstall it.

Thank you

[202] Submitted by: Not so Bored on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 20:28 -0500

If you can't figure out how to uninstall it, perhaps you shouldn't be using Firefox... :P

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[203] Submitted by: paul massa on Thursday 18th November 2004 at 09:20 -0500

i get a install script not found how do i fix it trying to install googlebar in netscape!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[204] Submitted by: duane on Saturday 20th November 2004 at 05:28 -0500

well I get a unsupport file on my desktop and why isn't it with a installer? I am using firefox 1.0.. Please some one make a damn installer.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[205] Submitted by: Adrian on Sunday 21st November 2004 at 12:32 -0500

I have a problem, i installed the toolbar, made some changes then accidently i clicked on something that made the toolbar dissapear like you can uncheck the bookmarks tab, now i can't get the toolbar to show anywhere...i re-installed it but it didn't work, please help me :(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[206] Submitted by: John Woods on Sunday 21st November 2004 at 21:29 -0500

Adrian,

The hotkeys Ctrl F8, or Shift F8 hide or show the Googlebar.

Also available is an item to make the Googlebar show itself on the Googlebar Items context menu.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[207] Submitted by: John Woods on Sunday 21st November 2004 at 21:30 -0500

Duane,
The XPI file on your Desktop is an installer. Just Drag and Drop it on a Firefox window.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[208] Submitted by: John Woods on Sunday 21st November 2004 at 21:34 -0500

paul massa,
You will need to use the Googlebar for Mozilla Suite. At update.mozilla.org you can find the latest version under the "Other Versions" link, or our installation page.
Here ya go...
http://downloads.mozdev.org/googlebar/XPI-rimental.xpi

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[209] Submitted by: Steve DiPaola on Wednesday 24th November 2004 at 14:53 -0500

Great tool - will help significantly in the IE to firefox migration (which reports say are accelerating beyond expectations).

Request - can google's new scholarly search be added to the search possiblities. Or at lest a pointer to how to add it via customization.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[210] Submitted by: Pete Pusateri on Thursday 25th November 2004 at 11:14 -0500

The googlebar for IE has an icon to hit to fill out form information. Firefox has a function "saved form information" but there does not seem to be a way to use it like I di with the IE Googlebar. So what does this function on Firefox do or how do I utilize it?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[211] Submitted by: plerophoria on Thursday 25th November 2004 at 22:56 -0500

I installed and when I try to search thru the googlebar, all I get is a blank browser. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, etc etc. Why no search?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[212] Submitted by: Wai on Friday 26th November 2004 at 16:15 -0500

I couldn't install it at all. I'm using Mozilla Google1.7.3. I intend to install Googlebar 0.8

I feel like getting Mozilla 1.7.2 back. Does anyone get the previous installer?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

[213] Submitted by: ice age coming on Monday 29th November 2004 at 12:23 -0500

Is it possible to change the defult address with the "My Local" button? Besides reinstalling the toolbar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[214] Submitted by: steve d on Wednesday 1st December 2004 at 17:53 -0500

I cannot permanently delete my search history. I went to the internet options and deleted history. The Google search history is gone, but on the Mozilla Firefox page that shows Google search, a double click on the URL just brings up the history. I want it GONE. How?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[215] Submitted by: John on Thursday 2nd December 2004 at 01:08 -0500

When I try to install the Google toolbar, a notification asking to download macromedia appears. What do I do?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[216] Submitted by: GregS on Wednesday 8th December 2004 at 14:13 -0500

Is there any way to keep googlebar from displaying the relevant search icons on it's toolbar?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[217] Submitted by: EskeRahn on Tuesday 14th December 2004 at 08:13 -0500

The GoogleBar is NICE :-)

But is it possible to somhow add the
&num=100
to the google-url ???

The OPTIMAL would be (minimizing unnescecary workload on google) to let
- First display be top 10
- Afterwards step 100

This COULD be possible by setting no num= and start= setting on initial search, and if 'intercepting' the FIRST Google-Next or page 'buttons' to add
&num=100&start=10
(or similar for page above 2)
This should do the trick since the num= setting is kept.

Im a complete newbie to firefox, so hope this is not a banale thing that can be done by some settings as is.

Best Regards

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[218] Submitted by: Bruno_me on Saturday 18th December 2004 at 00:33 -0500

I can't seem to get any of the xpis to run, I click them, and the box pops up asking me if I want to install, but when I click the install button (after it becomes ungrey), nothing happens

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041217

[219] Submitted by: zico82 on Monday 20th December 2004 at 06:53 -0500

Bruno_me to open the xpis, i just right click and open with firefox and they run ok then for me

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[220] Submitted by: joja on Monday 20th December 2004 at 20:02 -0500

Have just installed Firefox 1.0 and downloaded Googlebar 0.9.0.30. I don't want to uninstall Googlebar but would like to know how to do this. Can't find "uninstall" listed in any menu. How would I uninstall it?

Thanks

Jo

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[221] Submitted by: Bruno_me on Monday 20th December 2004 at 23:21 -0500

I tried that, I'm not running firefox though :/, see the useragent below me (mozilla 1.8a6)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041217

[222] Submitted by: Bruno_me on Tuesday 21st December 2004 at 02:50 -0500

yeah, I downgraded to 1.7.5, it works now (great plugin :) btw)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

[223] Submitted by: ChefChaudart on Wednesday 22nd December 2004 at 07:24 -0500

Can't install it, i got message error "install jtu.rdf is malformed" ???

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041220 Firefox/1.0+

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041220 Firefox/1.0+

[224] Submitted by: David on Friday 24th December 2004 at 11:37 -0500

Works perfectly for me.

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[225] Submitted by: Irene on Thursday 30th December 2004 at 13:01 -0500

Is there is fill-in option on google toolbar for mozilla?

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[226] Submitted by: ice age coming on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 12:02 -0500

I finally figured out how to change the default My Local, if anyone is interested. Simply type:

about:config

in the address bar and scroll down to the googlebar entries.

googlebar.gbmylocalPref -> change defult My Local

To the person having trouble deleting their history, find the googlebar.history entry and delete all the words stored in it.

Cheers

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[227] Submitted by: David Bannister on Tuesday 25th January 2005 at 04:32 -0500

When I set Google as my home page, it appears as "Google.ph" and is in Tagalog. I would like my Google home page to be in the US. How do I achieve this?

Thanks.

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[228] Submitted by: iac on Friday 28th January 2005 at 16:52 -0500

David,

Bookmark www.google.com/ncr

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[229] Submitted by: AndyB on Saturday 29th January 2005 at 12:32 -0500

David, the other solution to your site language problem is to change your country options on the preferences panel- from there you can choose which country to use. It's possible your prefs got scrambled.

But kudos for recognizing what written Tagalog looks like. That's impressive.

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[230] Submitted by: Michael Toews on Sunday 6th February 2005 at 12:15 -0500

How do I add pop-ups to the pop-up blocker?

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[231] Submitted by: VGV on Saturday 12th February 2005 at 18:18 -0500

Now that I have the GoogleBar, how can I remove the default search plugin from Firefox (top right corner of the browser) ? Thanks.

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[232] Submitted by: Peng on Sunday 20th February 2005 at 16:16 -0500

VGV:

I haven't done this in a while, but you should just be able to right-click on one of the Firefox toolbars, click Customize, and then drag the search box to the, err, big Customize Me box that pops up.

Also, may I comment that I had immense trouble just writing stuff into this stupid little box? Suddenly, the cursor would disappear from it, and I would have to exit the tab and open it again to be able to continue to type. In the end, I decided to just type this in NEdit and paste it into the box.

Also also, I haven't looked around too much, but is there a way to get the Googlebar stuff out of the context menu? My conext menu already has too much in it, and I have never once needed the Googlebar's part of it. The checkbox to disable it in the Googlebar's options thing can't be unchecked....

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[233] Submitted by: jnmonnin@free.fr on Tuesday 22nd February 2005 at 17:40 -0500

J'aimerais avoir une traduction en FRANCAIS pour utiliser à fond la googlebar. Est-ce possible ?
Merci de me répondre
jnmonnin@free.fr

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[234] Submitted by: AndyB on Wednesday 23rd February 2005 at 12:29 -0500

Michael- the popup blocker is part of Mozilla and firefox, not the googlebar. If you visit a page with popups, you'll see a popup blocked message either right below the address bar or down in the browser's "status bar"; click on the warning and you'll get an option to allow popups for that site.

Peng- we'll look into the context menu issue; thanks for the note.

Jnmonnin- I don't know much french, but if I'm reading your question right... you can get translated versions of the googlebar at http://googlebarl10n.mozdev.org . They're made by volunteers, so may not be the most uptodate, but there's probably one for version 0.8. Version 0.9 will be officially released soon (we hope!), and then we'll ask them to update translations for that too.

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[235] Submitted by: Peng on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 03:41 -0500

Ooh. It's being looked into in three days. I feel special. :P

I would like to say that that sounded sort of like I never use the Googlebar at all. Well, I do. I use it all the time. It's a great extension. I just have never used the part of it in the context menu.

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[236] Submitted by: Josh aka Beats on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 23:36 -0500

I have a eMac computer, I'm having trouble clearing my history. I can't do it? If there's anyone out there that could help me that would be great! Thank you so much!

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[237] Submitted by: RONSTER on Saturday 5th March 2005 at 12:10 -0500

COMPUTERS ARE LIKE WOMEN TO ME, I TRY LIKE HELL TO FIGURE THEM OUT, BUT I ALWAYS END UP FEELING LIKE A NOVICE.

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[238] Submitted by: RONSTER on Saturday 5th March 2005 at 12:19 -0500

COMPUTERS ARE LIKE WOMEN TO ME, I TRY LIKE HELL TO FIGURE THEM OUT, BUT I ALWAYS END UP FEELING LIKE A NOVICE(OR LESS). TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT,I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THEM EITHER. ANYWAY, AFTER I DOWNLOAD THE TOOLBAR (OR ANYTHING),A WINDOW APPEARS ASKING WHAT I WANT TO OPEN IT WITH. HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO KNOW WHAT TO USE?

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[239] Submitted by: notwhoyouthink on Monday 7th March 2005 at 03:00 -0500

I tried to install thge googlebar into firefox 1.0.1 but it says the bar is for firefox 0.9.0 - 0.9.2 only and refuses to install! HELP!

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[240] Submitted by: Andrés on Wednesday 9th March 2005 at 16:49 -0500

Like Steve DiPaola, I'd love to have the option to choose Google Scholar from the Toolbar. Is there a way to set that already?

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[241] Submitted by: nstarink on Friday 11th March 2005 at 08:59 -0500

Now that I have installed Mozilla,I no longer have my favorite web sites list. How do I get it into Mozilla?

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